No Parking Funeral Today, by Daniel J. Weiner October 21, 2009

The 440 Gallery presents: Daniel John Weiner
No Parking Funeral Today
October 22 –November 29, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday October 23, 2009 7-9 PM
440 Gallery: 440 6th Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY 11215
For Immediate Release:

Daniel John Weiner
No Parking Funeral Today

The 440 Gallery is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition of Daniel John Weiner, No Parking Funeral Today. In this installation, Mr. Weiner aspires to work in the tradition of Wallace Berman, George Herms and Ray Johnson, making intimately scaled, highly personal assemblage and collage. In his 5th body of work since 2003, Weiner continues to seek out texts and objects with problematic correspondence to their intended context. He reads a college writing handbook as poetry, electrical diagrams as symbols of bad relationships and the nightstand becomes symbolic geography. The telephone is given especially dire significance because of its purported role in connecting people. The flexibility of contexts and outmoded methods of communication both reflect badly on the endeavor of self-expression. Weiner hopes to show that the act of communicating belies its purpose and is marked with the tragic solemnity of essential isolation. And this is the good news. The artist sees this condition as an ethical testing ground. He attempts to respond to the question of what can and should be said.

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